The Hours of Darkness - Edmund Crispin

Category: Adults, Crime, Mystery, Short Story
Language: English
Keywords: British Edmund Crispin England Murder Murder mystery Mystery UK United Kingdom

Written by Edmund Crispin
Read by Paul Panting
Format: MP3
Unabridged

“Set at a country house party, and opens with two young people being rather fed up with a game of hide and seek which is going on.

“However, the discovery of a dead body – one of the house guests who’s found strangled and blood-soaked – soon puts an end to the celebrations.

“Fortunately, 15 miles away at the home of Professor Fen, a children’s party is taking place and the host is happy for any excuse to get away from building a Meccano crane; so when he’s called away to investigate the murder he exits post-haste in Lily Christine III, leaving Professor Wilkes happily telling lurid fairy-tales to the children and his long-suffering wife trying to sooth everyone down.

“At the country house, Rydalls, he finds a motley group of guests and evidence of a very nasty murder.

“The professor’s investigation reveals a killing with roots in a past case and a really vicious culprit whose evil nature even seems to affect Fen’s mood.”